DIGITAL CODES
Wednesday 21 November 2018, 6 pm
— The impact of digital technologies in the production of video art
- Participants
- Pau Waelder, Nelson Crespo, Marion Balac, Daniela Arriado and Serafín Álvarez
- Moderator
- Paula Nishijima
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Digital technologies are having a great impact in the production of video art. Further than developing new conceptual outlooks on our technological era, they have pushed the interdisciplinary borders of video art. Artists incorporating digital technologies in their practice often need to partner with videogame programmers, hackers, VR technicians, designers and other like-natured professionals. Alternatively, they need to incorporate these kinds of knowledge in their own practice. This has lead to new and richer production scenarios and workflows where to experiment, evaluate and reinvent digital codes through the creation of video art.
Pau Waelder
- Moderator, Participant
- pauwaelder.com
Art critic and independent curator, with a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Bachelor in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Waelder has curated several digital art exhibitions in museums and foundations and has been a member of the jury in various contemporary and digital art awards. He writes regularly for several specialized, international publications, as well as catalogues and monographs. Currently, he is a consulting professor in Humanities and Design as well as postgraduate courses at UOC. He is also a writer for the magazines ETC Media (Canada) and Estonian Art (Estonia), and he is section editor of Media Art in art.es contemporary art magazine.
Last update: May 15th, 2017
Nelson Crespo
- Participant
Nelson Crespo is a visual artist and educator living and working in London, UK. For the last 4 years he has been the Central Saint Martins 4D Coordinator at one of the leading Art and Design Universities in the world. He’s heading up the Digital Media, Film and Video, Animation and CAD departments. Nelson leads a team of digitalspecialists and brings a deep understanding on how to embed digital and emerging technologies in the teaching of contemporary art and design subjects. From 2004 to 2012 he was part of the Collection Care team at the Tate, where he specialized in conservation and display of artworks on paper. Nelson has
exhibited his work in solo and group shows in Europe, Japan and Brazil. In 2012, he was the creator in residency at Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo and in 2015 artist in residence at FAAP, São Paulo. From 2007 to 2016 he was a trustee of the London-based artist book publisher Bookworks. Nelson holds a master degree in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London and a bachelor degree in Fine Art from ESAD Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
Marion Balac
- Artist
Marion Balac is an artist, educator and researcher interested in the tensions operating between digital cultures, online territories, transmission dynamics and technology. Observing and using the resources offered by the internet, she lingers on these dynamic playgrounds to bring out their incongruities, divert their uses towards poetic ends or social experiments and elaborate new fictions, in or out of the screen.
Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at: Thaddaeus Ropac gallery (Paris Pantin) for Jeune Création, Fabra i Coats – Centre d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), le Confort Moderne (Poitiers), le Bel Ordinaire (Pau), LOOP Barcelona, Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana), Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Galerie Manqué (New York), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Enclave Projects (London), Paradise Works (Manchester), Bandits-Mages (Bourges), Espace des Blancs-Manteaux (Paris), l’Abbaye (Annecy-le-Vieux), Galerie Neuf (Nancy), Hectoliter Gallery (Brussels), Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse)… She has had the opportunity to develop her work in residencies like Espositivo and Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Salón Bellefour in Buenos Aires or Hangar in Barcelona.
She teaches in Beaux-Arts de Marseille – INSEAMM since 2021.
Daniela Arriado
- Curator, Moderator, Participant
- www.screencitybiennial.org
Daniela Arriado is a Chilean-Norwegian Curator and Producer. She is the founder and the Director of the Art Republic platform, commissioning contemporary moving image, and the artistic director of Screen City Biennial, dedicated to the expanded moving image in public space. Her curatorial research deals with current social, political, and ecological issues, and explore the relation between image, sound and architecture – often seeking to expand the borders of the cinematic experience.
Arriado also works as an advisor for artist studios, organizations and collectors with a focus on contemporary moving image. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. Since 2021, she is a board member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and a member of The Norwegian Association of Curators. Based between Berlin and Oslo www.artrepublic.no
Last update: November 11th, 2022
Serafín Álvarez is an artist, researcher and educator. His work entails collecting images, organise them, relate them to one another, ruminate them: imagining other worlds using them as a starting point, building those worlds and contemplating them. These processes are usually motivated by a keen interest on how we relate to the unknown, how we study it and how we represent it.
Last update: November 11th, 2022